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She sat at the computer this morning, and she filled out an application to go to a university engineering program. She didn’t ask for...

I am not that great at motherhood. I don’t say this to be self-deprecating.    I am fourteen years into this vocation, one which h...

Dear Kid, I watched you sit on the bench this weekend.   You were across the court.   My first feelings were of indignation.   I worrie...

When you thought they weren't listening, and instead they were capable of starting a family prayer with the Sign of the Cross in Spanish...

One by one, they began to pop up in the places we visited. First, it was the dentists' waiting room, where the children had always ha...

Down for the count with pneumonia, which means mandated resting for me.  I have been slowing down.   (Almost had to read that again to belie...

For Jimmy, Age 7 in 2015 In the year before golden, a boy lay in a cave, reading to himself about superheroes. He biked down the bl...